Hi @all,did anybody tried to use non-original RAM for a X4600? We are thinking to do so, because the RAM is a little bit expensive and we have an offer for the same typ of RAM from a local vendor for 1/4 of the SUN price. Anybody have any experiences?Thanks in ...

Hi All,I am developing a web based application for my client based on java. Teh application has realtime transaction as well as batch processing also. Most of the modules for this application are open source.I need to sizing Sun boxes for the same. Can any one send me some documents which can ...

I am trying to clear the password on a System controller via the RTOS procedure.However, when I run the javaConfig command I get the following error:-> javaConfigLoading JVM...ERROR: failed to load JVM (S_errno_EINVAL)value = -1 = 0xffffffff = _func_taskRegsShowRtn + 0xfff08103Thanks in ...

Hi there I am wanting to know wehter the qlogic card I have from an Wintel server will be compatible with a SunFire V480. I can see that Qlogic do have the Solaris 9 drivers for this card. I just wanted to check before I move this over and wether there are any gotchas?Many thanks

Hi all,With help from this forum,I managed to build myself a nice machine.Ultra80.I need to setup my dual heads...?I've been browsing the manual but cannot see instructions :( I have a second elite3D. total:2 elite3d.Can anyone gimme a hand on seting up my monitors please?Thx in ...

Hi,Need advise here, what is the solution for the sPARC solaris v240. After connect to the monitor, and switch on. There is no output to the screen. But from the front panel, it telling you that it is booting. I can telnet afterthat, just only no display on the monitor. Need help here.Thank ...

I wander if Netra 240 can support 4CPU and if so ,how to do it

Hello dear Sun community,I am currently working on a Sunfire V240 machine. I have these two queries:Is it possible to disable or alter the temperature sensors at the ALOM?andWhen I connect a monitor and a keyboard to the machine, nothing happens. The monitor will simply stay saying that it has ...

Does anyone know if it is possible to connect a Screen and keyboard to a Sunfire V1280? I have tried an XVR100 graphics card which it seems to recognise, and put in a PCI USB card with keyboard attached. The latter doesn't get detected.I know these things are normally run from a terminal ...

Hi,Scenario:Suppose I have an X4500 running with Solaris and ZFS . I configured RAID5 configuration with the ZFS tools. The RAID is working fine, but after x months/years I need to make a new Solaris installation from scratch on the X4500 machine.Will my ZFS data located in the RAID be in ...

I'm trying to reset the LOM module on a SunFire V100 running Solaris 10. I can use JP13 to temporarily get into LOM, but when I attempt to delete the previously established user accounts the LOM prompt hangs. I am unable to create a new user because there are already 4 users configured. After ...

Hi all,I'm seeing a wierd problem on a new v890 server...I've installed a FCAL dual channel HBA in slot 8, and during boot, it reports error:ERROR: /pci@9,600000/pci@1/<Unnamed>: Last Trap: Data Access ErrorError -256Dictionary overflow - here f00f7184 limit f0400000After this error it ...

Hi, I am working on a way to perform a diskless boot from a Ultra 10 to SPARCstation 20 server. I installed Debian Linux on the Ultra 10 and I set up the RARP server and tftp server. I also created the ethers file with the MAC address and IP of the SPARCstation 20. Both seem to be running fine ...

I am trying to jumpstart a t1000 to U3. From what I have seen everything appears to be configured properly. When booting the t1000, it get the IP, and then only posts "Timed out waiting for TFTP reply" Running a snoop -v on the boot server shows this:ETHER: -- Ether Header --ETHER:ETHER: Packet ...

I have failed drive in a 280R that is part of a mirror. The drive that failed is the bottom slot ( 0 drive ). Can I simply replace the drive and run metareplace or do I have to run luxadm first?Thanks

I have an X4100 with the original 1.0 firmware. I would like to update and from the docs I read I must upgrade to v1.1 prior to any newer version. All docs I've read point to this url for downloads: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/downloads.jspThis url no longer seems to have the v1.1 ...

hi,Server: Sun Fire 280ROS: Solaris10 11/06OBP version: 4.5.16In the handbook i see Flash PROM Patch 118323 which upgrades flash to 4.16.4Question:Is it OK to jump from 4.5.x to 4.16.x version of firmware?--mpech

Hi Everyone,What might be the problem which shows following output while connecting from console. As the system shows no display at all while booting.Is this error with CPU fan or something other.Please login:Please login:RSC Alert: CPU0 exceeds shutdown temperature. Temperature equals 109 ...

So I've replaced the two old HDs with new ones, and I now need to setup the OS again.I connected the server to another PC with a cross-over LAN cable.I inserted the Sun Cobalt OS Restore CD into the PC, it does boot but fails the initialization by giving a tons of errors.Am I missing ...

I am trying to install a PGX64 graphic card in a E 220R running Solaris 8 , the server has a video card in it that works fine but now I have a new PGX64 that I want to install and when I plug one of my monitors into it the screen goes blank and when I plugged a different monitor into the card ...

Hi!I'm very new to SUN Platform. I would like to check whether can i use a normal LCD used for x386 Desktop for SUN V240?How about the mouse and keyboard? Is it compatible with those used in normal x386 desktop?The KVM switch used by SUN V240, can it be used by a Windows Server?Thanks.Message ...

Folks, I have may posted this before but have not received any feedback. I have a Sun x4200 whose ILOM I need to configure remotely. Unfortunately I am running Windows2003 on this server and it seems that Sun does not have an IPMITOOL specific to Windows. Is there anybody out there who has used ...

I own a "Sun Cobalt Qube 3. Pro Plus" Or at least thats what the sticker says lol. Awhile ago I did a OS restore and everything worked great! My brother now would like me to set it up so that he can use it for his businesses website. So I did a OS wipe/restore and now it seems different, almost ...

I've got two new SunFire v240 servers. They came running solari 10 03/05. OBP 4.18.10. I need to upgrade to at least update 2. The installer aborts every time.I've tried installing via "boot net" or "boot cdrom" without sucess, both update 2 and update 3. After the initial round of questions ...

hi, i have an x2100 server in a datacenter and for some reason when i reset the power on it will not reboot. i need to hit the reset button on the front of the machine, incovenient since i'm not local to the machine.i had a look at the startup screen but didn't see anything in the bios for ...

Hi. Very simple question. I would like to know if a Sun W2100z Workstation can be used as a Windows server 2003 (R2 release). Do I need some special driver? I know it can run Windows XP Pro but I don't want to take any chance. Thanks in advance.

Hi,Are CVS 1.11.21 and PVCS 6.8.10 compatible with solaris 5.10 Sparc Unix server.Thanks

hello,my Sunfire V240 is having the following problem. It does not seem to heat up but, sometimes it powers itself off with a shutdown due toSC Alert: TEMP_SENSOR @ MB.T_ENC has exceeded high hard shutdown threshold.now, when i run showenvironment on the sc> prompt, the CPU's seem to be in ...

Hello,We are having problem of performance on our server (Solaris 8). I wish you guys could help me to analyse the result of various users commands to find out why and how to make our solaris feel better...Thanks in advanced to all the people that will read and/or help me in this task.1st, the ...

We have an x2100 that has started freezing very frequently (stays up for a couple of hours or so). I tried pulling out a couple of memory sticks to see if that made any difference. That made no difference. There are a few errors in /var/adm/messages regarding disk read errors, but metastat and ...

I seem to have problems using burned CDs and DVD-R in the DVD-ROM's that come with Netra 1400.Anyone know if those drives can read recordable media?I couldn't find anything on sun.comThanks

Hello everyone!BTW, this is my first post on the Servers forum :-)I recently bought a Sun Fire V480 server, which didn't come with the RJ45->DB25 serial adapter + cable. The V480 manuals say that the RJ45 uses all 8 wires for the communication, so I ordered an adapter from Blackbox (part # ...

I need to know which Sun server would be best to support 5000 users, locally. These are the only requirements imposed by the instructor.Generally, which server would be suitable?--Josh

Does the V440 run/ support Linux?If so, which versions of linux are compatible? Just redhat and suse or do others work as well?Any information and details would be greatly appreciated.thank you

We have 3 new Sun Fire X2100 servers at my current job. Just recently the status LED (orange) started blinking. The logs show fine and running a prtdiag shows everything up and running fine. Is there a way to turn off the blinking LED? I have gone over every piece of information I can find and ...

We recently received 4 servers. 1 server came with ILOM 1.0.1 (I think) and it was the first I set up. The Java redirection worked great! Ever since I upgraded to ILOM 1.1.1 the Java redirection has not worked. On shipping ILOM, when I chose 8 or 16 bit color, Safari had me download a jnlp file ...

Hi AllI have a T2000 on which 2 zones are created. Application processes are run in the zones, but they seem to run out of swap space pretty easily. I never had such a situation in other sun hardware. The Ram is 8 GB and I have 20 GB of Swap. Any ideas. Any such problems known earlier or ...

Can someone please advise me where I can get the documentation for Netra T12? I need to reconfigure the ssc (rsc) port on this server.The output from "uname -i" command is - SUNW,Netra-T12

New to SUN hardware so this may sound stupid but is there a limitation with installing OS options on E420R; Solaris 10, Fedora, MS, etc. ?Thanks,Shoptalk

I am building a three-tiered web application with apache servers front-ending Tomcat on a T2000 that connects to a datastore on another host.Evaluating the throughput of the Tomcat layer on the T2000 compared to a 2-cpu Opteron and a 4-cpu v440 the T2000 is slow. Average throughput is ...

Anyone gotten this combination to work yet? We've been able to successfully complete the installation process, but Ubuntu 6.10 and 6.06 both are unable to mount the hard disks during the boot process after the install has completed. We've upgraded the blade's firmware, changed the BIOS ...

I have a system running on my V240 which sends output via the serial port. I need to be able to see that output, what sort of connecor can i use to access the serial port and see the output?

Since today i am the owner of a Sun Server FJ1AI don't know the exact specs yet but there are two 10.000 rpm 18.2gb harddisk,a 512mb RAM module. I dont know anything about the cpu yet.I can turn it on, everything works,I currently don't have much knowledge about rackservers, but everything ...

Hi,I just recently got ahold of a used Netra T1 and its not working correctly from what i can tell. I had this box awhile ago and apparently setup a Lomlite user on it, but I must not have given myself the right permissionsWhen i get into the lomlite console i get the following ...

Hi All ,Currently, Our Oracle 10g with RAC (Real Application Cluster) is running in the Server Sun Fire V240 (SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi) with 4GB of RAM.We have an idea to upgrade the processor. Please give me your suggestion, which processor is best for Oracle 10G with RAC.I am awaiting for your ...

What type is SPARCengine Ultra AXi a server motherboard or a workstation?

I've just purchased a used X2100 w/ 2x80GB SATA drives (Seagate Barracuda 7200.7). The online docs say that there's a 250GB SATA drive available (also Seagate). Seagate makes 3.5" SATA Barracuda ES disks that go up to 750GB now.Question: Can I buy any size SATA drive with the same physical ...

we got a couple of brand new sun fire e2900. After unpacking, I am not able to boot from network to jumpstart. Boot from local disk also failed with probe-scsi-all error fast data access mmu miss. try to boot from the dvd shipped, got error failed to expand cpu/$cpu.Three out of four new ...

Hello,I have laptop which doesn't have serial port but from time to time I have to connect to our servers (mainly 4800/4900) for maintenance purposes. I have to buy usb2serial connector but read many times that not every connector works with sun's servers. Could you please suggest one which ...

Hi,does anyone know if it's possible to install Solaris 8 on a Sunfire V245?RegardsJArbert